Sentences with phrase «buys ebooks priced»

People have been burned by low - quality cheap ebooks and are now wary of buying any ebook priced at $ 0.99.
I can tell from first experience, even after selling 1600 copies in a month the earning doesn't constitute a «living», especially because readers hardly buy an ebook priced over $ 3.99 unless you are one of the big names.

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I'd pay a high - end price for a non-fancy eReader that hit my niche, and much more importantly buy more Amazon eBooks.)
Before the agency model, Amazon was buying new ebook releases at the wholesale price of the hardcovers, then turning around and selling them for retail at dollars less.
I'll be a lot more likely to buy it later when the mass market version comes out in print, and the accompanying ebook price comes down.
This flexibility of ebook pricing let libraries choose the best way of buying your books.
Many will not be able to afford better than secondhand prices for books in general, which counts them out of buying most if not all ebooks, and never mind the expense of a device to actually read them on.
By high pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.
The only shoppers that can buy your eBook at the MatchBook price are those that buy or have bought — at any time from Amazon — your print book edition.
A rise in paper prices has concomitantly driven more readers to buy ebooks.
12 % said that the price is right, but they would not buy ebooks if the price increased even further and 8 % said they no longer buy ebooks and exclusively borrow them from the library.
Then often the ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the price for the hardcover book, later when you can buy the paperback it is usually cheaper than the ebook, because that was priced after the hardcover and since book prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.
Numerous Kindle owners try to buy eBooks at a good price online, only to get disgruntled when they aren't compatible.
You can find books, where the price for the ebook is actually higher than for the paperback, so why should someone buy an inferior product (in terms of ownership)?
In addition because of lower eBook prices and the greater ease of shopping and buying ebooks versus a trip to a physical book store, my reading experience has broadened and become more experimental.
I will also honor the sale price for anyone who wants to buy the ebook directly from me in the format of their choice!
If I love a story I'll probably buy a print copy after I've read (and already bought) the ebook, so wouldn't be prepared to pay «full» price there either.
Buy her our Year + plan (12 months for the price of 10, plus a free ebook, excluding Sparkler Distro) or a 12 - month YearVIP + Membership (tons more downloads + free ebook, excluding Sparkler Distro) for the gift that keeps giving all year.
Since big publishers won their lawsuit and jacked eBook prices way up, I don't buy big pub books anymore.
I wrote not that long ago about the new version of the WH Smith eBook store, and when Kindle launched I compared the prices of a selection of books — essentially looking at those I've bought, and comparing what the price would be to buy the whole collection again for Kindle, or just to buy them all now, if I were starting from scratch.
The sale price applies wherever Faerie Blood «s ebook edition is sold, and I will honor it for any requests to buy the book directly from me as well!
When I see a lot of new novels in SF / F coming out at digital price points of $ 12.99, $ 13.99, and $ 14.99, or novellas coming out at price points like $ 9.99, then yes, I'm going to buy fewer new ebooks.
, I also note that nowhere in this article does it mention how the uptick in pricing lately has made ebook buying prohibitive for a lot of readers.
I know readers say that now, that they would not try a new debut author at $ 2.99 but this is because there has been ebooks introduced at $ 0.99 in the first place by Amazon for years;) but if $ 2.99 was the absolute minimum available from the beginning readers would buy a book at that price because it would be considered the «entry price».
I used to always price my ebooks at.99 just because I thought I was helping the reader be able to buy more books.
Is it because lower prices all around encourage more ebook buying overall?
Now, I either stick to the 99 cent eBooks or I buy used hardcovers at $ 4 - 5 with shipping because I'm just not willing to buy 80 books a year at an average price of $ 12.
Writers can set the prices of their ebooks higher than $ 9.99, but who's going to buy those, and then their royalties are cut in half.
A lower ebook price isn't worth much if people can't buy your book.
Amazon talks a real good talk about how lower ebook prices mean more sales, but when they're going out of their way to make it hard for customers to buy Hachette ebooks, it's the authors who're losing the sales.
Back in 2010, Amazon pulled the buy buttons from Macmillan titles in a dispute over ebook pricing.
Stop buying ebooks across the board, at any price, under any terms.
If you're wondering why someone would price an ebook at $ 0.99 or $ 1.99 it's because it effectively turns a risky purchase into an impulse buy.
As the owner of an ebook and ereader blog that is heavily invested in research into the tablet industry, I would advise windows tablet purchasers to wait about a year before buying to give software developers and microsoft the chance to work the bugs out as well as the price to come down to the point it appeals to mainstream consumers rather than early adopters.
Despite the fact that ebook readers are not consuming paper, ink, or fuels associated with shipping costs, they would now pay the same price for a digital download as they would be required to if they had bought print.
With a price structure that often puts physical and digital editions of bestsellers within only a few rupees of each other, there seems to be little rush to buy ebooks.
I agree, the jacked up ebook prices are outrageous to me, and I won't buy any version no matter what.
I've bought a bunch of audiobooks this year, but mostly due to whispersync discount pricing (discount when you have purchased the ebook).
Why buy a new Kobo and pay higher prices for ebooks when you can get a lower price (sometimes $ 2.00 — $ 3.00 lower) for the same ebook at Amazon?
I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the price of a hardcover textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used» book market obsolete.
Beginning as a site that lets users buy a bundle of video games for a better price than they could if they were to choose titles individually, Humble Bundle has expanded their service to include eBooks and Audio as well.
Firstly, give people a legitimate and reasonably priced way of buying ebooks, lending ebooks, moving ebooks from one ereader to another, and so on, and the vast majority of readers won't pirate ebooks.
No wonder ebook buyers are nuying less as we realize how easy it is to loose our books when we can buy hard copy for the same price.
At $ 10 — $ 15 per month I think plenty of avid ebook readers would be willing to sign up, because they're probably already buying at least one ebook at retail prices each month.
People resist ebook pricing because they have been told ebooks are a product, they perceive ebooks as a product, and the value of buying what amounts to electrons is difficult to perceive.
While publishers would lose money on accounts signed to voracious readers who currently buy numerous ebooks every month at retail prices, those folks are outliers.
But mostly, the obscene pricing of ebooks keeps me from buying books.
That's fine if you've got some mega blockbuster book everyone has been waiting on, but we know from buying history that eBook buyers are pretty price sensitive so discounting a book by just a few dollars probably won't work.
Rather, these price disparities finally serve as a vital reminder to comparison shop at multiple outlets before buying an eBook.
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